Friday... What an amazing difference God can and will make in our lives.

Psalm 43:3a (NLT), "Send out your light and your truth; let them guide me."

Friday... What an amazing difference God can and will make in our lives.

It is so true.

What are you facing today? What questions are going through your mind today? And where do you turn for answers?

Psalm 43:3a shows us an amazing difference that having God in our life can make. It says, "Send out your light and your truth; let them guide me." We can be so confused when we strive to live all on our own. In this day and age with so much out there striving to get our attention life can be so confusing. Have you watched YouTube? There is so much on there. So which one is the truth?

What an amazing difference God can and will make in our lives but we must turn to him on a daily and even a moment to moment basis. But it is so awesome to have a relationship with God, the one who created us, the one who is omnipotent, all powerful, who is omniscient, all knowing, who is omnipresent, he is everywhere, the one who is all loving, the one who does not lie, who tells the truth, in fact he is the truth. Yes, he can be trusted. And we can turn to him. So pray, "Send out your light and your truth; let them guide me."

I'm reading in Genesis about Abram. In Genesis 12 and verse 1 says, "The Lord had said to Abram, 'Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father, and go to a land that I will show you.'" Now God didn't stop there. Verses 2-3 says, "I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you and curse those who treat you with contempt. All the families on earth will be blessed through you." And what did he do? Verse 4a says, "So Abram departed as the Lord instructed."

Now he could have played it safe and said, "That doesn't make sense. I've got it made here. There is too much risk." But he didn't. He listened to God. And what an amazing difference God made in Abram's life and all who came after him. The story of Abram who God changed his name to Abraham is a great story. And we also have a story that God wants to tell through us.

Back to Psalm 43:3, which says, "Send out your light and your truth; let them guide me. Let them lead me to your holy mountain, to the place where you live."

Now Abraham's life was a continued relationship with God and we need to live that way too but life isn't always easy.

Psalm 43:2-5 says, "For you are God, my only safe haven. Why have you tossed me aside? Why must I wander around in grief, oppressed by my enemies? Send out your light and your truth; let them guide me. Let them lead me to your holy mountain, to the place where you live. There I will go to the altar of God, to God - the source of all my joy. I will praise you with my harp, O God, my God! Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again - my Savior and my God!"

And remember that through all we will go through, God can and will make an amazing difference in our live. He really will. Just seek him, read his Word on a daily basis and follow him. "So Abram departed as the Lord instructed." Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

Thursday... Maybe we need this word today.

Psalm 57:1b (NIRV), "There I will stay until the danger is gone." Thursday... Maybe we need this word today. There are words in life that give us confidence no matter what we are facing. Now we have to believe them in order for them to have an impact. David wrote Psalm 57 while he was in a cave hiding from Saul who wanted to kill him and he says in the last part of verse 1, "There I will stay." It was a safe place and Saul didn't know that he was there. But he doesn't stop there. With confidence he said, "There I will stay until." And until is definitely a word of faith and confidence. "There I will stay until the danger is gone." Do we need that today? Let me give you the whole verse. In verse 1 David says, "Have mercy on me, God. Have mercy on me." And that is a great place to start in times of trouble. Maybe that is what we need to pray today, "Have mercy on me, God. Have mercy on me." It is so great to have someone...

Tuesday... We just have trouble listening.

1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT), "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." Tuesday... We just have trouble listening. Over in Jeremiah 25:4 (NLT) it says, "Again and again the LORD has sent you his servants, the prophets, but you have not listened or even paid attention." And Jeremiah went on to tell what was going to happen. There will be consequences if we do not listen to what God says through his Word. Now the Apostle Paul over in 1 Corinthians was having a problem with some professed Christ followers who were having trouble at listening. And we too can have problems at listening. We can think that being a Christ follower means we do a lot of finger pointing and we give up on people who don't do what we say. We can even do that in our families. But Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT), "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." In verse ...

Friday... It is so exciting but wait a minute.

Proverbs 19:2 (NLT), "Enthusiasm without knowledge is no good; haste makes mistakes." Friday... It is so exciting but wait a minute. This time of the year is so exciting. We get our paycheck from work and then we head to the store or Amazon and buy and buy and buy all those presents and then our check is gone Proverbs 19:2 (NLT) says, "Enthusiasm without knowledge is no good; haste makes mistakes." But buying gifts can be so much fun and seeing how happy they are when opening those presents makes us feel so good. But then verse 3 says, "People ruin their lives by their own foolishness and then they are angry at the Lord." Now for some that is their life. They get money and they spend it on their wants with no thought of what needs to be paid. An important lesson that we have learned is just because you have money in the bank doesn't mean you must spend it. But our enthusiasm takes over. But the problem is when it is gone and there is no money to pay th...

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